Knitted textile casing for sausages

In a tubular sausage casing providing a sausage skin for containing sausage therein comprising a reinforcing tubular base fabric and a coating in interlocking association therewith and together providing said sausage skin, the improvement wherein the tubular base fabric comprises a tubular textile knitted fabric of knitted threads and additional weft threads running in a direction extending generally circumferentially of the tubular fabric and thereby to extend generally circumferentially about the sausage within the sausage skin, said additional weft threads having a strength related to the strength of the knitted threads for easy circumferential tearing of the knitted threads of the sausage skin with said additional weft threads for permitting selective manual removal of sections of the sausage skin by selectively manually tearing the sausage skin from the sausage.